Legal & Law Courses

Course Programs

Our Complete Career Training Programs (CCTP) include both the training you need and the skills you will want in order to be prepared for your new career. We have taken online career programs to a whole new level by bundling our Career Training with Professional Development and Personal Enrichment courses to ensure you have a diversified learning experience.

Our Complete Career Training Programs (CCTP) include both the training you need and the skills you will want in order to be prepared for your new career. We have taken online career programs to a whole new level by bundling our Career Training with Professional Development and Personal Enrichment courses to ensure you have a diversified learning experience.

Legal Assistants Conserves attorneys time by reading, researching, routing correspondence, reports and legal documents; drafting letters and documents; collecting and analyzing information; organizing client conferences, and attorney meetings. It is imperative that legal assistants have the proper administrative skills as well as understand the law.

Legal Assistants coordinate office activities for Attorneys or Administrative Law Examiners. Legal Assistants perform a variety of legal secretarial duties such as scheduling hearings, preparing legal documents, docketing cases and providing data and direction to others. The work requires knowledge of legal, secretarial, and office practices. Our Legal Secretary Specialist program takes the training to another level for individuals looking to work in a legal office setting.

Our Legal Transcription Specialist not only trains individuals how to transcribe the information, but focuses on understanding the law for a more comprehensive and law focused career. Legal transcription specialists train to convert audio dictation by legal professionals and other recordings from legal cases into the printed word. Legal transcriptions may work for legal services companies, government agency or law firms as employees or as independent contractors.

Paralegals help lawyers prepare for hearings, trials, and corporate meetings. However, their specific duties may vary depending on the size of the firm or organization. Our Paralegal course will engage student’s in the study of the law and what it means to a Paralegal.

Single Courses

This course provides you with comprehensive, up-to-date information on the use of technology by paralegals in all types of legal organizations. Computers in the Law Office describes basic computer concepts as well as more complex skills and software programs. This course covers important topics such as an updated discussion of electronic discovery, Internet legal/factual research, legal timekeeping and billing, litigation support software, and case management and docket control software.

Looking for a challenge? Do you like research and staying organized? Do you enjoy the excitement of a busy office? If so, then you should consider becoming a legal assistant or legal secretary. Legal assistants/secretaries perform clerical duties at law firms and other legal offices. Unlike regular assistants/secretaries, legal assistants require extensive knowledge of legal proceedings and documentation.

Legal transcription has come into the public view recently being recognized for its efficient and professional influence on legal records and is steadily becoming a popular trend in the legal field. Legal Transcriptionists use verbatim methods to store, recover, and record legal information, and pre-trail and trial proceedings. They use prerecorded information, and written material to compile reports.

Paralegal 1: An Introduction uses real-world examples to cover all the topics a student needs to know to prepare for their paralegal career. Topics covered include career development, ethics and professional responsibility, pretrial preparation, trial proceedings, and legal interviewing and investigation. Learn guidelines for performing legal research and analysis and standards for legal communications and writing.

The Paralegal: Intermediate course provides you with an in-depth look into legal principles and effective methods for legal writing. This course will help you learn how to analyze statutes, identify core issues and key facts, and how to apply case law to various situations.

The US legal system plays an ever-increasing role in our lives. Our Understanding the Law course helps you become engaged in the study of US law by examining how various aspects of law affect individuals. We use hypothetical and real world examples to illustrate important points of the law and to inspire insight. This course also incorporates extensive coverage of ethical issues, consumer rights, employee rights and family law.

In this course you will learn how terrorism arises and how it functions. We discuss the most sophisticated, cutting-edge theories of the world's best terrorist analysts, while also focusing on the domestic and international threat of terrorism and the basic security issues surrounding terrorism today.

The US legal system plays an ever-increasing role in our lives. Our Understanding the Law course helps you become engaged in the study of US law by examining how various aspects of law affect individuals. We use hypothetical and real world examples to illustrate important points of the law and to inspire insight. This course also incorporates extensive coverage of ethical issues, consumer rights, employee rights and family law.